Books blog + Charlie Higson

Rachel Cooke: What are we after? Only the best comic ever. The standard of entries is always amazingly high but if you think you could create something that good, you could be the winner we're looking for

Blood Red Road, Moira Young's murky vision of the future, is a fitting winner for this year's Costa prize: when the going in the real world gets tough, we need dystopian fiction to take on the big issues